The artists from Modernism to Post-modernism

Terry Eagleton on post-modernism

"a style of thought which is suspicious of classical notions of truth, reason, identity and objectivity, of the idea of universal progress or emancipation, of single frameworks, grand narratives or ultimate grounds of explanation. Against these enlightenment norms, it sees the world as contingent, ungrounded, diverse, unstable, indeterminate, a set of disunified cultures or interpretations which breed a degree of scepticism about the objectivity of truth, history and norms, the givenness of nature and the coherence of identities."

Robert Hughes on the death of modernism

"Histories do not break off clean, like a glass rod; they fray, stretch, and come undone, like a rope...so it is with modernism, only more so, because we are closer to it. Its reflexes still jerk, the severed limbs twitch, the parts are still there; but they no longer connect or function like a whole."

Banksy - British graffiti artist. "Capitalising on the anti-Capitalist"

Jean-Michel Basquiat - American graffiti artist/Neo-expressionist. "The Outsider"

Paul Cezanne - French painter. "The perceived father of modernism"

Salvador Dali - Spanish surrealist painter. "The executioner of surrealism

Marcel Duchamp - French American painter and conceptual artist. "The father of post-modernism"

Tracey Emin - British post-modernist. "Feminine art sold in a masculine way"

Paul Gauguin - French painter. "Father of the modernist culture of fusion"

Andy Goldsworthy - British photographer. "Accessing the landscape"

Jackson Pollock - American abstract painter. "Suggestions of order in chaos"

Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter. "The exceptional thief."

Damien Hirst - British post-modernist. "Its good having rich friends."

Sidney Nolan - Australian conceptual expressonist. "Changing the way people think."

Takeshi Murakami - Japanese painter and sculptor. "Flattening art into a trademark"

Kasmir Malevich - Russian painter. "Cognitive consideration of emotion."

Yue Minjun - Chinese painter of comic realism. "Dissent via saracastic conformity"

Vincent van Gogh - Dutch expressionist. "The artist's artist."

Andy Warhol - American printer, illustrator and painter "Genius by being ordinary."